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Lot# 10192 - Auction 291-297

  • Lot# : 10192 South Australia

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    Adelaide Printing 1856/58: Adelaide 1 s. orange, wmk. Large Star, imperforate, a spectacular used block of twenty-one (7 x 3) with margins grazed to large, of brilliant fresh colour, cancelled by sixteen strikes of "PAID / ADELAIDE S.A." circular datestamps (Sept 11, 1858) struck in blue. Some creasing and manuscript "Received 8/11/58" removed from base of the multiple, of absolutely no significance. Illustrated in the Robson Lowe Encyclopædia on Colour Plate 1. An extraordinary and unique multiple for the connoisseur of classic philately.rnProvenance: Collection W.W. Munn, London Philatelist, February 1909, page 35; Puttick & Simpson, London, 22-23 May 1928; Collection Julius Beresford, RL, London, 5 Feb 1958, lot 392; Collection Maurice Burrus, RL, London, 28 Nov 1962, lot 289; Collection Harry Napier, RL, London, 30 April 1976; Collection John R. Boker, Harmers, London, 14 April 1981, lot 50; Collection "Besançon", Corinphila sale 221, 23 Nov 2017, lot 6234.
    Starting bid : 15,000.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 42,000.00 CHF